| 单词 | summer goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer goose summer goose n. (also summer gauze) English regional (northern) (now rare) gossamer. [ < summer n.1 + goose n., as an alteration of gossamer n. with reversal of the (assumed) elements of that word (see discussion at that entry). The form summer gauze] apparently shows folk-etymological alteration. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web > threads floating in air or spread on grass gossamerc1325 kell?1523 spittle of the sun1568 air thread1753 summer goosea1800 flake1817 a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Summer-goos, the gossamer. North. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Summer-gauze, gossamer; quantities of which, blown from the land to the sea, adheres to the rigging of ships. 1926 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 16 Nov. 4/7 The fairies' mantles are made of gossamer, the filmy web of spiders' silk, which in provincial England, is still called ‘summer-goose’. < as lemmas |
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